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Mark P. Fancher
Surviving Until the Revolution Comes
30 Oct 2019
The non-profit industrial complex makes it possible for the capitalist class to not only contain the revolution, but to shut down revolution altogether.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Striking Chicago Teachers Refused to Give in, Condemn Mayor’s Austerity Budget
30 Oct 2019
Chicago’s teachers are demanding the city fund social supports for communities, as well as teachers, but the mayor is crying broke.
Erica Caines
Unpacking The Super Exploitation of Black Women
30 Oct 2019
The liberal misinterpretation of identity politics, that favors progressive neoliberals, has dismissed the innate radicalism of a workers centered Black feminism.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Political Theology, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Limits of Social Democracy
23 Oct 2019
Universal equality has always run counter to the United States’ anti-Black and settler colonial roots.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Hillary Busts Tulsiasha Gabbardskaya and Jillia Steinakanova: What Could Go Wrong?
23 Oct 2019
With their Russiagate fantasies, the Democrats have done infinitely more to delegitimize US institutions of governance than any foreign power could dream to accomplish.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karla Holloway’s “A Death in Harlem”
23 Oct 2019
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses.
Mindy Isser
Why I’m Voting No On UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker
23 Oct 2019
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering
21 Oct 2019
Although LGBTQ communities have a much higher political profile than in the past, Mustafa Sullivan, director of FIERCE, an organization that builds leadership among LGBTQ youth of
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues
14 Oct 2019
The lack of food outlets in Black neighborhoods is part of the larger reality of labor exploitation and corporate domination, according to Ashante Reese, professor of anthropology
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
14 Oct 2019
The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery into Amer